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Ponderosa pine plantation and clifs nearby drainages. 17tc plantation +vas sun•cycd for raptor <br />• nesting activity, but no nests +vcrc obscn•cd during any sun eys from 3000 through 3003. "1'hc <br />coung age class of the tttes, !ow height and spacing make this area Icss than optimum as raptor <br />nesting habitat. Kock outcrops in Dove and Sheep Corral Gulches ++•cre checked for nesting <br />activity, but no nest sites were located during any of the years. <br />` 7ltcrc arc two Aspen stands within a fe++• hundred yards of the site. Iii~th of these stands arc <br />deteriorating, and dominated by old gro++lh trees 6U-70+ feet tall. 'fhc spacing, lack of a good <br />canopy cover and underston• makes these areas low quality for accipiter nest silts. <br />Thcrc arc potrmia! nca .itrs available in cliffs along nearby drainages, but none of these were <br />++•ithin 1 ••_' mile of the s~tc. <br />tiilc I'-•fC-113-01 <br />Drill tiitc :end Access Route Il:rbitat tiun'cv <br />` Approximately 400 feet of ne++• access ofl"the main Terror Creek road ++•ill be required for this <br />site. The proposed access route follo++•s the edge of a drainage. 'there arc some small patches of <br />I +villo+vs in the bottom +vith gamble oak and scn•iceberry near the edges. "(71e drill site lies at an <br />clc+•atirnt of 7200 feet in the oak vegetation communiq~ with G-10 foot <iambel oak and <br />scrvicebcny providing the ovrrstory. Sno+vbcrt}~ and chokechem• make up a majority of the <br />undersu>n• vegetation. :Yong the drainage there arc good stands of grasses and forbs. Away <br />i • from the drainage, grasses and forbs arc limited except for a tew small s++•alcs. An occasional <br />Rocky \1ountain juniper (Juni~xrus scopulorunr) inhabiU the site as +vcll. Side slopes arc gentle <br />I at I 0°'o and aspect is e7,tit to northeast. <br />• <br />